#NatashaFernandes

On thinking about our futures, we as university students have it hard and possibly harder now than ever before. My time at University is drawing to a close as I begin the second term of my final year at Nottingham and I cannot help but feel as though I...

For the first time in UK history, it has come to the public’s attention that suicide rates amongst students have topped those of non-students. The figures have risen by 56% between 2007 and 2016, according to a conference in New Zealand, and though it is not specified what type...

Every year, groups of secondary school kids are lured into the great outdoors, wearing rucksacks twice their own body weight, eating cereal bars by the dozen with dodgy map directions glued to their hands – and why? For a certificate and a, dare I say it, rather crummy badge....

“Terrorists’, “Sexist” and “Backwards”.  These are just some of the phrases that Muslim people come face to face with every day. We see aggressive words like “terrorists” alongside non-aggressive words like “Islam”, quite literally meaning ‘peace to people’, in newspapers and on TV every day. For those of us...